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Tornado Watch 243
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 19, 2022, 12:51 PM CDT for 45 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2022, 12:51 PM CDT (17:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 45 counties
Barry County, MO, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Christian County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Madison County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Osage County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Perry County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Scott County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Warren County, MO, Washington County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk | 49 min |
| May 19, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Laclede, Webster, Wright | 66 min |
| May 19, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Webster, Wright | 47 min |
| May 19, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede, Wright | 50 min |
| May 19, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps, Pulaski, Texas | 59 min |
| May 19, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 41 min |
| May 19, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Phelps, Pulaski | 24 min |
| May 19, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps, Shannon, Texas | 42 min |
| May 19, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Phelps | 51 min |
| May 19, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford, Iron, Reynolds, Washington | 54 min |
| May 19, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford, Washington | 50 min |
| May 19, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Shannon, Texas | 50 min |
| May 19, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 34 min |
| May 19, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Howell, Shannon, Texas | 28 min |
| May 19, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford, Franklin, Washington | 41 min |
| May 19, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Franklin | 36 min |
| May 19, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Shannon | 34 min |
| May 19, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carter | 26 min |
| May 19, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 44 min |
| May 19, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren, City of Saint Louis | 52 min |
| May 19, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 11 min |
| May 19, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 39 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1924 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 10:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callaway, Cape Girardeau, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron and 16 more | 2 hr |
| May 19, 12:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Christian, Crawford, Dallas and 23 more | 2 hr |
| May 19, 2:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Crawford, Dent, Iron, Jefferson and 12 more | 115 min |
| May 19, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mississippi, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 6 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.